Word: room
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inside the operating room, before and between operations, the floor must be swilled with this solution, the excess being removed by a wet-pickup vacuum cleaner. Ultraviolet lamp tubes girdle the operating room, high enough to offer no risk of skin burns...
Rabbis and Israeli government officials crowded around the open doorway as an elderly man was wheeled into the second-floor operating room of Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox Shaare Zedek Hospital, where Mosaic law is observed so strictly that nurses are forbidden to write on patients' charts on the Sabbath. The sheet-draped patient: Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji, 60, a descendant of Shinto priests. The surgery: circumcision, as part of his conversion to Judaism. As the mohel (circumciser) lifted the knife, he repeated the ancient formula: "Blessed be the Lord our God who has sanctified us and commanded...
...mainly impressed Leventritt judges was his bold and apparently effortless attack, his ability to strike emotional fires that sharpened rather than distorted the logic of any piece he was playing. While almost everybody else fidgeted nervously at last week's finals, Pianist Frager retired to the artists' room, snapped out the lights and sat quietly in the pitch dark. "I was thinking," he explained later, "about the music...
Second Game. Shaken by the opening-day debacle, Dodger Manager Walter Alston showed up for the game wearing mismatched socks, and slim Second Baseman Charley Neal (5 ft. 10 in., 156 Ibs.) worried aloud in the locker room that the pains in his stomach meant an ulcer. In the first inning Neal gave his stomach cause for more pain by botching a double-play ball, opened the way for two quick Sox runs. But in the fifth, Neal grimly homered into the lower left-field stands for a run-the first time the Dodgers had scored in 14 innings. Suddenly...
...were legion. Dun & Bradstreet, so the story goes, once characterized him: "Estimated worth, $500,000,000. Pays bills promptly." Yet he had been broke so often, he once quipped, that "I thought it was habit forming." Always on the go, he kept three sets of suitcases in his two-room suite at the Fort Worth Club, packed with clothes for three different climates-hot, cold and medium...